Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Dinner Party Edition
On water policy, growth policy, and cooking dinner in the shower.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Elephant Diaries: Large Critter Metaphor Edition
Call newspapers dinosaurs if you like, but remember that dinosaurs roamed the Earth for millions of years. NYT Managing Editor Jill Abramson (h/t Tweets of the Times)
Feed-In Tariffs
An analysis last year by Gilbert Metcalf, of Tufts University, concluded that feed-tariffs – essentially a mandated price for utilities’ purchase of renewable energy – is the most effective tool encouraging investment: The review of the European and US experience provides a number of lessons to guide future renewables policy in the United States. First, …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: WCI Edition
New Mexico’s approach to implementing greenhouse gas legislation.
It’s the Food
Stehfest et al. in Climatic Change: A global transition to a low meat-diet as recommended for health reasons would reduce the mitigation costs to achieve a 450 ppm CO2-eq. stabilisation target by about 50% in 2050 compared to the reference case. Dietary changes could therefore not only create substantial benefits for human health and global land …
Annan On the Pielke-Hansen Kerfuffle
James Annan argues that Roger and I are both wrong in our discussion of how to properly think about James Hansens 2006 draft paper discussing the possibility of “super El Nino”: It’s OK to hold Hansen to his 2006 El Nino forecast. (Fleck wrong.) A careful reading of that forecast suggests Hansen got it right. …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: More Leopold
In this morning’s Albuquerque Journal (sub/ad req.): When I began my search for Leopold, I asked Witt and his colleagues at UNM’s Museum of Southwestern Biology whether they had any specimens in their vast research collection of plants and animals that might have been collected by Leopold himself. Witt, who is the curator of birds, …
Elephant Diaries: What Happens When a Newspaper Stops Printing Itself
Alan Mutter argued yesterday that newspapers’ print products are central to driving traffic to their web sites – that a significant fraction of the web audience overlaps print, and that the loss of print “stripped of the advantages that formerly differentiated it from all other rivals, would become just one of thousands of URLs competing …
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Elephant Diaries: ‘Net Hugs
If you’ll indulge me, a big Inkstain hug for hug for Bob Brewin: I’m a reluctant blogger and know that good reporting will always beat any blog, as this Albuquerque Journal story illustrates. The Journal is a privately owned, independent newspaper (a rare item in these times) and is struggling to survive in an environment …
Ah, Internet Discourse
I’ve largely been out of the climate wars fray for years, but yesterday’s Hansen v. Pielke thread leads to a couple of observations: New business model: mention Hansen and Pielke a lot. The quality and usefulness of commenter contributions scales as the inverse square of their relative anonymity. (This blog in recent years has largely …